Shen Bing, the Palace Master of Qingyang Palace, froze slightly at the sight.
Turning to look at Ji Shaolin beside him, he remarked, "When you and I broke through back then, it was a narrow escape from death. Who would have thought this fellow's aura could become so stable the moment he broke through?"
"It just goes to show how solid his foundation is."
The effeminate Ji Shaolin smiled coldly, his eyes brimming with killing intent.
Yet, upon catching Li Changqing's gaze, that trace of murderous intent was concealed well.
Glancing at the terrifying barrier of the primal energy domain, he sneered, "A pity..."
"He is still going to die."
With that, he glanced back at Meng Wanshu, who stood in the distance with her hands clasped.
A flash of jealousy actually flickered in his eyes—he envied how naturally stunning and beautiful Meng Wanshu was.
Hearing this, Shen Bing said nothing, merely offering a perfunctory smile. "That might not be the case. You saw He Yuanting's reaction just now—it didn't look like He Yuning was going to die."
"Perhaps there is still a turn of events in this matter."
Ji Shaolin's eyes flickered slightly, but he made no reply.
Deep down, however, his desire to kill Li Guanqi grew several shades deeper.
Through this affair, he had come to realize that Li Guanqi was not nearly as simple as he had imagined.
The sheer depth of this youth's scheming... made even an old monster like him, who had lived for a thousand years, feel a chill of dread.
Li Guanqi's actions went beyond mere cunning; he was ruthless to his enemies, and even more ruthless to himself!
At this moment, he suddenly recalled what Li Guanqi had said to him, and a chill ran down his spine.
Just as the crowd was focused on the situation within the barrier, Jiuxiao suddenly snapped his eyes wide open!
When a roaring boom akin to beating war drums reached their ears, the onlookers finally snapped back to reality and raised their heads toward the heavens.
Dense thunderclouds stretching over a thousand zhang were even more terrifying than those from Li Guanqi's Void Refining Realm heavenly tribulation earlier.
Dark clouds weighed down upon the city, shrouding all of Yuntian City beneath them.
The moment Meng Wanshu sensed this, her face changed drastically.
Jiuxiao... was about to undergo a tribulation!
The heavenly tribulation of a Rank 6 great monster was far more terrifying than that of a human cultivator.
Li Changqing's eyes narrowed, and he spoke in rapid succession, "No good. We have to relocate it immediately, or else all of Yuntian City will cease to exist under this heavenly tribulation!"
"The power of the monster core you gave it earlier was too potent. Even it cannot stop itself from breaking through now."
Saying this, the elder turned to glance at the heavenly flame barrier. "Perhaps... in its heart, it wants to break through just to help him!"
Meng Wanshu's eyes flashed. The ice flower above her head floated into the air at once, instantly cloaking Jiuxiao's body in a layer of icy-blue radiance.
"Take it away!"
With that, she tossed over an amethyst jade bottle filled to the brim with incomparably rich spirit liquid jade marrow.
Jiuxiao's draconic eyes reflected the young woman's figure. Then, letting out a dragon roar, his massive body soared into the sky!
Li Changqing's eyes flickered; he did not dare leave Meng Wanshu here alone.
His mission was to protect Meng Wanshu's safety, and under no circumstances would he take half a step away from her side.
Watching the departing great dragon, quite a few people's eyes gleamed with undisguised greed.
A cold gleam flashed in Meng Wanshu's eyes, and she said softly, "Whoever dares touch him, I will kill."
*Boom!*
Extreme ice primal energy erupted in an instant, sweeping across a thousand zhang around her in practically the blink of an eye.
The feet of everyone present were instantly frozen in place, as though countless ice spikes might shoot up through their soles the very next second!
That terrifying pressure gave everyone a violent jolt. The peak mid-Void Refining Realm!
After all, the young woman before them appeared so young—only eighteen or nineteen years old.
Li Guanqi, Ye Feng, Meng Wanshu... the presence of these three made the old monsters who had cultivated for hundreds or thousands of years feel utterly ashamed.
Ye Feng, on the other hand, clicked his tongue in wonder from the side, the corners of his mouth curving upward as he said, "Sister-in-law really is incredible."
Meng Wanshu felt delighted to hear this, yet a touch of blush still colored her cheeks.
Ye Feng tied up his golden hair, strapped the unconscious Pengluo to his waist, snatched up his longsword, and turned around. "Sister-in-law, I'll go check on Jiuxiao's side. Let me know when Big Brother's done fighting over here."
Then, golden light flashed beneath his feet, and his figure instantly tore through space and departed.
Ye Feng's demeanor showed not the slightest worry that Li Guanqi might lose, and this unshakeable trust infected Meng Wanshu as well.
Meng Wanshu slowly lowered her hands, her gaze gradually turning calm.
With her hands hanging loosely, she too firmly believed Li Guanqi could slay his enemy.
In spite of herself, she began to wonder how Li Guanqi had survived all these years on his own.
When she left Fulong Village back then, he still had his grandfather by his side.
Later, her father had suddenly taken her and her mother away.
She too had undergone the greatest upheaval of her life—that man who had been cursed at day in and day out by her mother had transformed overnight into the Domain Lord of the Shenbao Domain.
It had taken her a long time to slowly accept that reality.
She had lived in luxury all these years, but whenever she asked about Li Guanqi and his grandfather, her father's expression would turn unnatural.
He would only tell her not to worry.
Inside the barrier, terrifying roars sounded incessantly. Both men were determined to slay the other.
Lightning flashed under Li Guanqi's feet; his speed had reached the pinnacle of swiftness.
The Void Refining Realm allowed him to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at incredible speed to replenish himself, not to mention that he possessed a second dantian within his body.
The depletion of primal energy was negligible.
Cang Lu was drenched in blood at this point, his hands leaving trails of afterimages as terrifying sonic blades sheared through space, shooting violently toward Li Guanqi.
"Cang Lu! Who on earth are you?!"
While dodging the terrifying sword rays striking at him, Cang Lu continued plucking the strings, sending forth an endless barrage of deadly sonic blades.
Hearing this, an oddly sinister smile curled Cang Lu's lips, even though blood trickled from the corner of his mouth and his power was completely suppressed by Li Guanqi.
Yet the fact that Li Guanqi still had no idea who he was brought him immense satisfaction.
"Who am I? Hahahaha! I am Cang Lu!"
Li Guanqi's face darkened, sword light flickering incessantly from the blade in his hand.
He knew that even in death, Cang Lu probably would not tell him the truth.
Everything about him... was like an enigma.
"In that case..."
Li Guanqi instantly unleashed his greatest strength!
*Boom!*
The sword intent of the Sword Heart Realm sent sword qi flying in all directions, crisscrossing and slicing dense spatial fissures throughout the void within a radius of a hundred zhang around him.
Seeing this, Cang Lu's eyes narrowed, and he drew in a slow, deep breath.
Mysteriously bizarre patterns suddenly lit up faintly on his glabella, and a beam of light shot down from the vault of heaven, shining right upon him.
That mysterious power pierced through Li Guanqi's barrier almost instantaneously!
Li Guanqi instantly shot back over a hundred zhang, holding Yanluo across his chest as his eyes locked onto Cang Lu!
"Invoking an immortal's name!"
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